Straw and Straw Manufacture
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A single page from the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica on straw and its manufactures. It covers straw as the stalk residue of grain plants and its uses in thatching, papermaking, mats, baskets and especially plaited hats and bonnets. It describes the selection, harvesting and bleaching of Tuscan wheat straw for plaiting and the domestic plaiting industry of Tuscany, and begins to introduce the Luton straw-plait industry in Britain.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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